I´m not sewing anything at the moment.
Blame it on the summer because I really feel like it. I browse through patterns
and magazines compulsively looking for thing I would like to be making.

A lot of people have already their
August Burda issue, and you´ve seen what a lot of great patterns are in this
one, but I want to discuss them with you.

Empiezo por este vestido. Me encantan las lineas. Y además la gran Irene Bullock ya tiene su versión que le ha quedado preciosa.
Let´s start with this dress. Nice lines! The great Irene Bullock has her version of it and it looks so good it makes me want to start sewing it right now.

En la portada aparece este modelo amarillo de falda y top con peplum. Mucho han tardado los del Burda en unirse a esta moda.On the front page appears this peplum number, it´s a top and a skirt, I wonder how Burda took so long to jump in the peplum wagon

Pero a mi me gusta mucho mas esta version, con manga larga.

But I like this long sleeve version much better

Ahora,
mi vestido favorito con mucho es este.

My
favourite dress is this one

En
negro no se ve muy bien, aquí esta el dibujo tecnico.

You
can´t see the lines very well in that black fabric, here is the drawing

Some day ago I received a fantastic present from my charming friend Mari Cruz of Dedal, Aguja e Hilo. I was the winner of her Paco Peralta give away, and I got the Portefeuille skirt. It´s so precious I´m afraid of taking it out of its envelope! She was so kind as to enclose an extra surprise: a very cool measure tape and very cute little scissors. Thank you Mari Cruz! Lots of love!

This year I had to make bathers: swimsuit or bikini, that was not importart. I downloaded the Alison pattern and started working with it but I didn´t find the instructions very easy. On the other hand, the printing test square was slightly smaller than it should be. I wasn`t convinced.

Also I had doubts about how to insert the elastic. So I forgot about Alison and deconstructed an old bikini instead. That was very enlightening.

I discovered that the elastic is serged to the seam allowance and then it is folded inwards and sewed with a long and wide zig-zag stitch.I used the old bikini to get my pattern making the back of the top longer to tie it in a bow and add 1cm seam allowance as my elastic is 0,50 cm